[Gambas-user] Gambas over GTK...

[José Luis Redrejo]

2007/2/2, Shannon Fang <shannon at ...1633...>:
>
> Hi there,
>
> Thanks for the help, especially from Jonathan Astolfi, and the online
> compile-howto... now Gambas2 is running on my Edgy.
>
> I have again few more questions :)
>
> 1) I heard that gambas2 now support GTK, I would like to let *the IDE
> itself to use GTK* so that it fit with my gnome theme, is that possible?



Not yet. The gtk component doesn't support all the events, methods and
properties the qt component does. His development is not so complete, so you
can not use it to  build the IDE. I hope it will be possible in the medium
term.


2) in the readme, it says make install will install to /opt/gambas, but
> in fact it is spreaded into the system (somewhere I don't know), 'which
> gambas2' will tell me under /usr/local/bin. can I do a *make uninstall*,
> and *make install --prefix=/opt/gambas* to rectify this problem?




Yes



3) I found a few cosmetic "bugs" in the IDE (e.g., partially shown
> buttons etc), shall I report to the mailing list? Or the developers are
> now focusing on more important things and will not deal with these at
> the moment?



I suspect the "partially shown buttons" are not really bugs. When using the
gtk component, or the Gnome view for the IDE, the stock icons are defined
for the last gtk version. If you are using a previous version you will miss
some of those icons. That's why in the gambas2 Debian packages I apply a
patch [1] to the gtk stock icons to avoid that behaviour with the current
gtk version [1] in Debian Sid/Etch. If you are also using gtk < 2.10 you
should apply some Debian patches to make the cosmetic behave according to
the 2.10 version. That's part of the work of packaging and application to
the specific Distribution issues, and maybe in the future somebody will take
those packages from Debian to Ubuntu as they did with the stable gambas
version.

Regards.
José L.


[2]
http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/g/gambas2/gambas2_1.9.46-1/changelog
[2] http://packages.debian.org/testing/source/gtk+2.0